Order Only: Private Message to Sirius and Harry

[alt_hermione]

Sirius,

I talked Harry into going to Tea Appreciation (well, it wasn't actually hard, he wanted to go) but I thought, if you were to turn up just outside the shop, maybe he could follow you somewhere nearby and you could spend some time together?

I know that the Jr Aux are hoping you'll be in the shop but maybe it's better if you're not. But this way you could see Harry for a while.

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[alt_sirius]

Hermione, that's brilliant. Yes, I can figure something out, there are loads of abandoned buildings in the neighbourhood.

Wait a moment. What do you mean they're hoping I'll be in the shop?

They did recognise me at the Burrow, didn't they? Bugger. Kingsley'll have my head.

[alt_hermione]

Well, they're not stupid, no.

They didn't at first but yes, they're fairly certain it was you. And they wanted to make sure which is why they wanted to come to the shop again. But it's all right, they would have figured it out eventually because how long can the dog hide from everyone?

Anyway, I'll have Harry be sure to go outside the shop into the alley when he comes, so he can spot you and then you can lead him away. It'll just look like he'd following a stray dog, I hope. I mean, I think that will work and if the others don't see you then they won't know he was visiting you specifically.

Oh, I have a question for you: When you and your brother were young did you have a set of boxes that sent objects from one to the other? Auror Lestrange gave a set to Harry and Draco this year and then Draco remembered that your brother gave them a set years ago but they never even looked at them, only now he's found his and I've found the other one of Harry's, but it's got S.O.B. '66 carved on the bottom of it and it looks a lot older than the one Harry was just given. Were they really yours? Did you use them? How did they work and do you know anything about the charms that make them go?

[alt_sirius]

Right. We'll be careful.

The courier boxes? Yeah, we had a set. Mainly used them to pass toys and things across the landing to one another. Reg tried to use it when I was at school that first year but something went wonky when he tried to send me a seedling and it died. (I tried to send him a phial of armadillo bile but it exploded all over the inside of his box. Which he took as a deliberate attempt to annoy him. I think he put them aside after that. Or our mother objected to the mess, more likely.)

He gave them to Harry and Draco? Hm. Seems I'm not the only one who's been Christmas shopping in the cupboards of Grimmauld Place.